10,000 Birds

JULY 15, 2016

Chimney Swifts are remarkable birds who are having a harder and harder time finding brick chimneys in which to nest and raise their families. They are among the most difficult birds for wildlife rehabilitators to raise, so if any fall down your chimney their best chance of survival is to put them back up there again.

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JUNE 7, 2012

“ Untamed Americas ” is a high-definition miniseries event narrated by Academy Award-nominated actor Josh Brolin. In it we get to see some of the amazing places in the wild areas of North America, Central America and South America. Untamed Americas: Mountains. Untamed Americas: Coasts.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 14, 2019

Even if we couldn’t find time to raise the bins at a favorite patch, it only takes momentary glances into the sky and hearing chip notes from the trees to remind us that birds are on the move. Migration is happening. Every birder knows it. The old neighborhood standbys are quiet or maybe gone.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 18, 2011

And the next day they’re gone, coursing over the skies of South America. I raised my camera. Hundreds of birds, even thousands at their peak, spiraling down into the meter wide opening like so much bathwater down a drain. The entire population hidden in the deepest parts of Amazonia. The conditions were perfect.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 28, 2011

Rufous Hornero , Furnarius rufus is an ovenbird from South America. A pair may stay together for many years if they manage to successfully raise young together, but they will commonly build a new nest for each season. It is one of the most common birds seen in the parks and even on the pavements of the cities.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 20, 2015

And it raises a question: if all the birds are having a party over there, am I in the wrong spot? I live in the southeast of Europe, for a while lived in the south of Africa and also have extensively birded western and central India. And where all those birds are? Map by BirdLife International.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 24, 2014

August arrived and I was releasing birds knowing they’d need time to adapt prior to making that long flight across the Gulf of Mexico, headed to South America. I raised them, banded them and released them back to their colony site that summer. Finally, it was just Sophie left.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 30, 2011

Its first flight will take it from its burrow, usually on the west coast of the United Kingdom, to the coast of South America, an extraordinary journey for an unaccompanied minor. As a youngster of 10-weeks old, it is abandoned by its parents and left to fend for itself. While one bird sits, its mate feeds out at sea for a week or so.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 7, 2014

The Henderson Archaic Pigeon ( Bountyphaps obsoleta ) is another recent discovery, this one discovered in the 1990s and described in 2008 ( Worthy and Wragg 2008 ) from remains found on Henderson Island, which is roughly halfway between Australia and South America.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 3, 2020

Michael Kessler, born in Peru and currently working in Switzerland, has researched birds, plants, and overall biodiversity in Bolivia and South America, and, his bio says, fulfilled a lifelong dream by contributing his artwork.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 20, 2014

The Hoatzin, which may have reached South America by raft , has resisted placement in basically every study ever done. Some of our longstanding questions now have really fascinating answers, and if others are still open or if new ones have been raised, we now have greater knowledge and freer imaginations with which to pursue them.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 4, 2014

Encountering this stunner, one of the largest passerines in South America, raises a number of questions. Birds Colombia cotinga fruitcrows South America' Like the Red-ruffed Fruitcrow. Of course I got great looks at the Red-ruffed Fruitcrow (as well as the Cauca Guan) right at the lodge.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 22, 2012

I’ve family to raise and no time for modeling.” Some of these birds, breeding up here at 73 degrees north will winter at the tip of South America, Tierra Del Fuego, 54 degrees south or so. “Do you mind? ” The Baird’s Sandpiper is by far our most numerous shorebird here in Arctic Bay.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 18, 2014

migration corridors from Argentina in the Southern tip of South America to Canada. The ability of knots to successfully raise their chicks is very sensitive to snow conditions, the availability of insects as food, and the presence of predators, all of which are affected by climate change. Birds in Delaware Bay.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 9, 2015

Just as it takes a village to raise a child, it sometimes takes a “village” of rehabbers to save threatened wildlife. For the next two and a half weeks Sue continued to raise them, along with four other swifts she had in care. Timing is everything when it comes to releasing Chimney Swifts.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 1, 2021

If you remember that the first edition of Sibley was published with “National Audubon Society” on the cover, raise your hand. And now we have the third iteration in Audubon’s guide book history: National Audubon Society Birds of North America. I didn’t.). This is a fairly large book: 907 pages; 7.38

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 27, 2016

A few other remnants of the former collections might raise eyebrows in some circles. A Ringed Teal (more likely to be seen in South America than Kent) caused a stir when it followed the river downstream and showed up in Mote Park.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 1, 2012

There are antwrens of South America, wren-babblers of South East Asia, the New Zealand wrens and the multitude of scrubwrens, heathwrens and fernwrens of Australia. On the whole they tend to be as generally drab when it comes to plumage as the true wrens of the Americas and Eurasia.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 25, 2020

Her narrator is Gabriel, 23, raised in Northern California by an American father and a Uruguayan mother. In Gaines’ first novel Carbon Dreams (2001) the science (there, geology) tended to overwhelm the story, but in Accidentals, she incorporates ornithology and microbiology skillfully into a well-woven whole.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 25, 2011

Between staying warm/cool, finding food, avoiding predators, migrating thousands of miles every year, finding mates, raising chicks and doing all this at the mercy of the elements, it makes sense that they have more brainpower than just simple instinct to run on. crossing the Carribean and winding up in South America?

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 23, 2011

For native people, living in South America meant living with hummingbirds, and for Europeans, discovering South American meant discovering hummingbirds (and, tragically, exploiting South America meant exploiting hummingbirds, destroying hundreds of thousands for stuffed specimens and in futile attempts to keep them alive in captivity.)

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 6, 2011

I was fortunate to have been born and raised in Africa, and although I have traveled extensively around the world, it remains my home and in my blood. Approximately 2,300 bird species inhabit Africa, however as impressive as that sounds, much smaller South America boasts nearly 1,000 species more.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

We are familiar with the story, birds flying north in the boreal summer, taking advantage of the warmth, long days, and abundant insect life, to raise their young. And for the most part it is. In the High Arctic we find several migrating species that break that mould. So does one of our small plovers, the Common-Ringed Plover.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 1, 2022

But Cardinals certainly do seem to be residents at Tres Cerritos, in spite of being well south of their official range; I have so far seen them there in seven different months of the year. And I found this one because he was singing his heart out quite persistently, which certainly suggests a bird that wants to settle down and raise a family.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 25, 2015

I just flew nonstop from Canada to South America and boy, are my arms tired.” Indiana teacher raises the bar for newbie birders everywhere by finding the state’s first record of a Black-tailed Godwit. Even more thought-provoking is the original article from which it sprang.) Props on the sweet Barred Owl call, too. “I

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